Councillor Williams confirmed that
apologies had been received from Councillors Barrett, Clark, Hicks,
Howard, Mclean and SHearn.

Councillor Fisher
offered apologies for Cllr Fethney

Councillors Whitman,
Bateman and E Collins were not present.

Councillor Guest
joined the meeting at 7.50pm.

4.4
Council Leader and Members of the Cabinet:

(Full
details are in the minutes under Announcements of the Leader and
Cabinet).

Minutes:

4.1 By the
Mayor:

None.

4.2 By the Chief
Executive:

None.

4.3 By the Group
Leaders:

Councillor Williams confirmed that
apologies had been received from Councillors Barrett, Clark, Hicks,
Howard, Mclean and SHearn.

Councillor Fisher
offered apologies for Cllr Fethney

Councillors Whitman,
Bateman and E Collins were not present.

Councillor Guest
joined the meeting at 7.50pm.

4.4
Council Leader and Members of the Cabinet:

Councillor Williams, Leader of the Council and
Portfolio Holder for Community Leadership

Cllr Williams gave
an update on the SW Herts Leaders meetings which have been taking
place fortnightly to look at planning issues across SW Herts
area. This has been primarily focused
around infrastructure and other issues that result from the plans
that span across our districts and where those issues arise as
people travel across SW Herts and broader Hertfordshire
area. Cllr Williams advised that they
are now moving to conclusion of current round of work, a final
meeting will take next week where they hope to reach agreement on
memorandum of understanding. Will then
report back to Council to set up ongoing forward plan, as each of
the 5 Councils in SW Herts create their own Local Plan.

Cllr Williams
referred to future housing development numbers, commenting that it
is our intention that as an authority we should retain our
numbers.

Cllr England
referred to what he views to be the impracticality of our
government to reach a Brexit deal and
asked; what contingencies have been made or will have to be made,
and at what cost, to manage the outcome of these
negotiations?

Cllr Williams
responded that it is difficult to quantify the effect Brexit will have on Dacorum, confirming that there are no contingencies
that Dacorum feels it can make at this
time, therefore there is no cost associated.

Cllr Tindall
referred to discussions with SW Herts and asked, have any
discussions taken place on the staffing issue that most Councils
are having with regard to recruitment of professional and technical
staff; have there been any attempts to work together to ensure
Planning Depts. have adequate expertise?

Cllr Williams
responded that both in SW Herts, and independently of that,
discussions are taking place around sharing of officers or the
bringing together of services to recruit professional
staff.

Cllr Tindall asked;
in the deliberations, can agreement be made not to
‘poach’ each other’s staff as best as
possible?

Cllr Tindall also
asked if we have any European staff at risk due to Brexit.

Cllr Williams
responded that he is sure that EU workers in UK will be safe past
Brexit.

Councillor Marshall, Portfolio Holder for Environmental
Services

The Portfolio Holder
presented her updateandinvited questions.

Questions:

Cllr Tindall
commented that he’s received requests from recently
expressing concerns about the state of verges and green areas
across area, asking; is there a cycle of maintenance for those
areas that are being kept to, or have there been changes or
problems keeping up with mowing and trimming?

That Cabinet recommends Council approve the Meeting Timetable
for 2019/20 as set out in Appendix A to this report.

Minutes:

That the following be
approved:

11
December 2018

7.1
CA/128/18
COMMITTEE TIMETABLE 2019/20

Decision

That Cabinet recommends Council approve the Meeting Timetable
for 2019/20 as set out in Appendix A to this report.

Corporate objectives

The various meetings of the
Council, Cabinet and Committees support the achievement of the
Council’s Corporate Objectives.

Seconded and
agreed.

8.

Overview and Scrutiny referrals

There are no overview and scrutiny
referrals.

Decision:

None.

Minutes:

None.

9.

Changes to committee membership

To
consider any proposals for changes to committee
membership

Decision:

Cllr Tindall
advised that following completion of relevant training session, he
is nominating Cllr Pringle as substitute to Licensing.

Minutes:

Cllr Tindall
advised that following completion of relevant training session, he
is nominating Cllr Pringle as substitute to Licensing.

10.

Change to committee dates

To
consider any proposals for changes to committee dates

Decision:

None.

Minutes:

None.

11.

Exclusion of the Public

To
consider passing a resolution in the following terms:

That, under s.100A (4) of the Local Government
Act 1972 Schedule 12A Part 1 as amended by the Local Government
(Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006 the public be
excluded during the items in Part 2 of the Agenda for this meeting,
because it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be
transacted, that, if members of the public were present during
those items, there would be disclosure tothem of exempt information relating to the
financial and business affairs of the Council and third party
companies/organisations.

Local Government Act 1972, Schedule 12A, Part
1, paragraph 3.

Decision:

To consider passing a
resolution in the following terms:

That, under section 100A(4) of the
Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded during the item
in Part II of the Agenda for this meeting, because it is likely, in
view of the nature of the business to be transacted, that if
members of the public were present during this item there would be
disclosure to them of exempt information relating to the financial
and business affairs of the Council and third party
companies/organisations.

(Local Government Act 1972,
Schedule 12A, Part 1, Paragraph 3).

Minutes:

To consider passing a
resolution in the following terms:

That, under section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972,
the public be excluded during the item in Part II of the Agenda for
this meeting, because it is likely, in view of the nature of the
business to be transacted, that if members of the public were
present during this item there would be disclosure to them of
exempt information relating to the financial and business affairs
of the Council and third party companies/organisations.